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Now, with Microsoft pushing its Silverlight alternative, Adobe is touting the universality of its Flash format, which has penetrated '98 percent of Internet-enabled desktops,' it claims.

Now, with Microsoft pushing its Silverlight alternative, Adobe is touting the universality of its Flash format, which has penetrated "98 percent of Internet-enabled desktops," it claims.

nerdyH writes "As recently as 2007, Linux users waited six months for Flash 9 to arrive. Now, with Microsoft pushing its Silverlight alternative, Adobe is touting the universality of its Flash format, which has penetrated "98 percent of Internet-enabled desktops," it claims.

And, it today released Flash 10 for Linux concurrently with other platforms.

nerdyH writes "As recently as 2007, Linux users waited six months for Flash 9 to arrive. Now, with Microsoft pushing its Silverlight alternative, Adobe is touting the universality of its Flash format, which has penetrated '98 percent of Internet-enabled desktops,' it claims.

And, it today released Flash 10 for Linux concurrently with other platforms.

Ratcheting up the battle for the rich media space, Adobe Systems later this year plans to offer Adobe Flash Media Encoding Server, which is software to move video content to Adobe's Flash format.

The Linux Foundation has posted a series of videos from the Collaboration Summit held in Austin.

There's a bunch of interesting stuff there, but, unfortunately, the videos are in Flash format and, thus, will not collaborate well with a lot of Linux systems.

The word from the Foundation is that the company hired to do the video work wasn't able to figure out how to produce the final result in an open format.